Lab results indicate Mother should be healthy.

Normally, a Grade I endometrioid adenocarcinoma should cause no symptoms beyond abnormal bleeding. Pain, weight loss and general ill-health are generally associated with more advanced disease. But so far, all of the tests Mother has undergone looking for metastasis have been negative. The ultrasound and CT-scans showed no abnormalities, and the CA-125 showed a level of 14 U/ml (well below the 35 U/ml threshold). As for the other tumor markers, the CA 15-3 (breast cancer) came back normal, while the CA 19-9 is pending. The oncologist did not mention the CEA at all. Furthermore, Mother's not anemic, her renal function is good, her electrolytes are, in the words of the oncologist, "great." This is good news, but the question remains: why is she so very sick?